Bill I would love to have copys of these articles.Please send them to rsharp41@hotmail.com also if you should have any pictures of these Sharps. Ruth >From: William Brooks Hull <hull57@potsdam.edu> >Reply-To: SHARP-L@rootsweb.com >To: SHARP-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [SHARP-L] John Sharp Williams - Tennessee and Mississippi >Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:45:13 -0500 > >The other day I came across an article published in 1925 in the Watertown >Daily Times, Watertown, New York, about U.S. Rep. and Senator John Sharp >Williams (1854-1932). The article tells about his boyhood in Tennessee and >Mississippi and his life on the ante-bellum plantation of his grandfather >Sharp. It does not tell the names of his family, but from what I can tell, >the grandparents were John Sharp and Mary Allison of Yazoo County, >Mississippi. It does tell about the family moving to and settling in >Mississippi. The article reflects our racist past, but may be of >historical interest to someone researching this family. I'd be happy to >make a couple of photocopies and send them to interested parties. > >Bill Hull > > > >==== SHARP Mailing List ==== > > > > Joe &Ruth _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.